UAMS News
March 25, 2003
Prospect Terrace Homes, Food of Premier LR RestaurantsTo Be Featured April 25 & 27 on Annual Cooks Tour
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”> Four homes in the Prospect Terrace neighborhood of Little Rock will be open on the annual Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) Auxiliary Cooks Tour April 27.</span>
Obesity Expert to Join UAMS College of Public Health
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A psychologist who specializes in obesity and eating disorders will join the tobacco-settlement-funded College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in June.</span> </p>
March 20, 2003
Dale Bumpers Lauds UAMS Area Health Education Centers on 30th Anniversary
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Former governor and U.S. senator Dale Bumpers reminisced today with a crowd of veteran Arkansas legislators that “we did some really great things” in 1971-75 by creating the Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) as part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span>
March 19, 2003
UAMS Pediatric Cardiologist to Lead National Cardiology Group
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A pediatric cardiologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the new chairman of the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology.</span>
March 18, 2003
UAMS Pediatrics Chair to Lead International Association
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The chair of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the new president of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, an organization of pediatric chairs in the United States and Canada.</span> </p>
March 14, 2003
President Jimmy Carter to Speak at UAMS April 1
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Jimmy Carter, the 39<sup>th</sup> president of the United States, will be the special guest of honor at an April 1 ceremony celebrating the opening of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span> </p>
UAMS Free Public Seminar on Adolescent Mental Health
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>UAMS Psychiatry will hold a public seminar on teenaged mental health Tues., April 29, in Little Rock.</span> </p>
UAMS Breast Cancer Project Receives $40,000 Avon Grant
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund has awarded a $39,684.00 one-year grant to The Witness Project at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the second year that the program has received Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund funding.</span> </p>
March 11, 2003
UAMS Reports Dramatic Increase in Uninsured Patients, Charges at Arkansas Hospitals
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) released a new analysis of the impact of health insurance unavailability on Arkansas hospitals March 11, showing that admissions of patients without insurance increased by 30 percent between 2000 and 2001 while the average charges for those admissions increased from $8,185 to $9,268.</span>
March 4, 2003
Three Doctors Join Jones Eye Institute
<span class=”content”>Dr. A. Henry Thomas, Dr. Michael Wiggins and Dr. Nicola Kim recently joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), expanding the patient care at the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute. </span>
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